If you want to have a sense of what it is like to be from Montreal, then this is the film for you. Forget about all of the action that takes place, forget that Regis breaks out of jail after 5 years by chance, forget all that. Listen to the dialogue. It is La Joual in French or English and this makes the film unique and remarkable. The swearing is all French, but that is exactly what you will find in a part of town where somebody from east of St. Lawrence Boulevard is in the west end of town, like Pointe St. Charles where plenty of people speak French and English. Lots of swearing, but English is useless to swear in if you are French, and even the average English speaking person will swear in French on the streets of Montreal. What's the movie about? No spoilers here, but this is a hardcore, gritty piece of cinema that could only come from Quebec. Repeat views do not reduce it's effect, but it is not an easy film. It is singular, and every bit a ten out of ten.
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